Close Logfile Command is missing

[patorf]

Hallo,
we are using the esmini.dll in python like this:

esminiLib = cdll.LoadLibrary(esmini.lib_path))
log_file_path_pointer = c_char_p(log_file_path.encode(encoding="utf-8")) 
esminiLib.SE_SetLogFilePath(log_file_path_pointer)
esminiLib.SE_Init(....)
...
esminiLib.SE_Close()

After the simulation we want to delete the folder where the logfile was saved. Unfortunately we get the following error:
PermissionError: [WinError 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process: path\to\logfile.log'

Could you add a funtion to close the logfile or that this happens within the SE_Close() function?

[eknabevcc]

Very good find and proposal.

We choose to add close function. Default will still be to keep open for potential multiple runs. Now user/programmer can choose whether to append (keep open) or start over (close and delete).

Now, with commit db03994 and release v2.37.6, this code should work:

import ctypes
import sys
import os

if sys.platform == "linux" or sys.platform == "linux2":
    se = ctypes.CDLL("../bin/libesminiLib.so")
elif sys.platform == "darwin":
    se = ctypes.CDLL("../bin/libesminiLib.dylib")
elif sys.platform == "win32":
    se = ctypes.CDLL("../bin/esminiLib.dll")
else:
    print("Unsupported platform: {}".format(sys.platform))
    quit()

if (len(sys.argv) < 2):
    print('Usage: {} <xosc file>'.format(sys.argv[0]))
    exit(-1)

log_file_path = "emil.log"
se.SE_SetLogFilePath(log_file_path.encode())

se.SE_Init(sys.argv[1].encode('ascii'), 0, 1, 0, 0)
while not se.SE_GetQuitFlag():
    se.SE_Step()
se.SE_Close()

se.SE_CloseLogFile()

os.remove(log_file_path)